Good advice from the 70s progressive band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6...
Topics: science earth astronomy physics trivia interesting space referenc

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Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project Retweet, Twitter’s official integration of the retweet. Retweeting is when a user reshares interesting tweets from his or her friends using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable”).
Topics: twitter retweet internet how-to internet-tools social-networking

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With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter...
Topics: internet-tools social-networking twitter Bettween share conversat

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Here's a selection of recent social media stats, taken from a range of sources, including Econsultancy's Internet Advertising Statistics document, which forms part of the Internet Statistics Compendium, and other reports...

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In 2005, a huge 35 mile rift broke the Ethiopian desert apart and immediately led to geological claims that a new ocean was appearing there because two parts of the African continent were being pulled apart. However, the claims were quickly dismissed as..

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